General Description

• Kanamycin monosulfate is the sulfate salt form of kanamycin A

• It was isolated from Streptomyces kanamyceticus

• This compound inhibits translocation during protein biosynthesis. It binds to the 30S ribosomal subunit, causing misreading of the mRNA sequence

Application

• Kanamycin monosulfate shows antibacterial activity. It is effective against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, as well as Mycoplasma species

• This compound is also involved in translating prokaryotic ribosomes

• In molecular biology experiments, it is commonly used to select and isolate transformants expressing the kanamycin resistance gene, and plants that have the NPT II (APH3) gene incorporated

Literature References

Patel, K. N.; Limgavkar, R. S.; Raval, H. G.; Patel, K. G.; Gandhi, T. R. High-Performance Liquid Chromatographic Determination of Cefalexin Monohydrate and Kanamycin Monosulfate with Precolumn Derivatization. J. Liq. Chromatogr. Related Technol. 2015, 38 (6), 716-721.

Chi, Z.; Rong, Y. J.; Li, Y.; Tang, M. J.; Chi, Z. M. Biosurfactins production by Bacillus amyloliquefaciens R3 and their antibacterial activity against multi-drug resistant pathogenic E. coli. Bioprocess. Biosyst. Eng. 2015, 38 (5), 853-861.